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#VS2017 – Commands with the basic movements for an #Minecraft Agent with #ProjectMalmo

Hi! Today I will share how to perform 2 basic Agent movements in Minecraft Move along Turn The code example at the end of the post, is part of a ConsoleApp, which once connected to the Minecraft host, controls the movement of the current player / agent. The script advances a series of steps, then… — read more

Nov 20, 2017
#Humor – Defrag explained

Hi! Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno Source: http://bitsandpieces.us/2017/11/zebra-defrag/ — read more

Nov 19, 2017
#Flow – Analyzing images in 3 steps with Microsoft Flow and Computer Vision #CognitiveServices

Hi! Today I put on hole my posts on Project Malmo and Minecraft, because thanks to some new connectors in Microsoft Flow, I was able to create an image analysis Mobile App in a matter of minutes. When we create a Flow triggered using a button, we have a new data type [File] for input… — read more

Nov 16, 2017
#VS2017 – #Minecraft missions options in Xml format #ProjectMalmo

Hi! In this post I will explain some of the configurations and options we can define in the mission files. The sample file is at the end of the post. Line 21 defines the name of the Agent The <AgentStart /> element defines the initial position of the agent. The following image shows how to… — read more

Nov 15, 2017
#VS2017 – Sample ConsoleApp to initialize missions in #Minecraft with Xml #ProjectMalmo

Good! Before continuing to analyze the sections that have an xml file with the definition of a mission in Minecraft, I will share a small ConsoleApp sample project which creates from scratch the necessary elements to interact in a Minecraft mission. The function that initializes the mission from a file is This file contains hidden… — read more

Nov 14, 2017
#Humor – Copy & Paste on Windows, I’m still waiting …

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Nov 12, 2017
#VS2017 – Definition of #Minecraft missions in Xml format #ProjectMalmo

Hi! In yesterday’s post I wrote on how to create a mission in Minecraft using code. Now, if we need to create a world with special characteristics, one of the options we can consider is to define these options in a mission definition file, in XML format. The definition scheme of the mission is quite… — read more

Nov 10, 2017
#VS2017 – #Minecraft game interaction agents, missions definitions and recording with #ProjectMalmo

Hi! I am going to write some posts about Project Malmo, Minecraft and Visual Studio 2017. I still do not have very clear the order in which I will do them, so I will write and update them as I go along with my learning process. Once we have installed all the necessary prerequisites and… — read more

Nov 9, 2017
#Personal – Learning to code with #Minecraft? start with Hour of Code, #MakeCode and Project Malmo

Hello! December arrives and it’s time for one of my best moments of the year: Hour of Code. I have already written about this type of activities, and once again I recommend joining the community if you want to have a good time with children learning to program. As always, Minecraft is an almost mandatory… — read more

Nov 7, 2017
#Humor – 0 vs Null

Hi ! Greetings @ Hamilton El Bruno Source: somewhere in the internet — read more

Nov 5, 2017
#Podcast – NTN 40 – Introduction to Machine Learning (lucky for us, JavaScript free)

Hello! Episode dedicated to Machine Learning. I am very lucky to have 2 experts on the subject, Pablo Alvarez Doval (@PabloDoval) and Rodrigo Cabello (@mrcabellom). As always we had a prepared agenda, however, along the way we deviated from the agenda, and things became more real. We cover the definition of Machine Learning, we also… — read more

Nov 3, 2017
#Personal – Goodbye #Apple!, one more time …

Hi! It’s been 4 years since an iOS update forced me to get new gadgets and stop use Apple devices (see my previous story in the references section). Back on those days I used an iPod purely and exclusively to run with Nike Running. After updating the iPod Touch to iOS 6, the device stopped… — read more

Nov 2, 2017
#Hololens – 29 new countries are added to the Hololens market, total of 39 and is still targeting developers

Hello! Today is a quick post, I’m still trying to understand how the Qubits work and this is consuming me a lot of time. At the Future Decoded event in London, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Hololens will be available in 29 new markets. The new countries that are added to the list are Austria, Belgium,… — read more

Nov 1, 2017
#VS2017 – Adding new elements in a #Windows10 App using Windows Template Studio

Hello! One of the things I like most about Windows Template Studio is the ability we have to add new elements to an App dynamically, once we have worked with it. If you do not know Windows Template Studio, I recommend you to see the Getting Started Video (link). It’s a 90 seconds video where… — read more

Oct 31, 2017
#Humor – It’s all about relationships

Hi! Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno Source Linux Inside — read more

Oct 29, 2017
#Opinion – Bye #Kinect, thanks!

Today I start without a [Hello!], because based on some news today it should be a sad day. I summarize it in a simple line Microsoft has decided to discontinue the manufacture of Kinect. Matthew Lapsen (Xbox Devices Marketing Manager) together with Alex Kipman have made this news to the public, so that’s it. Several… — read more

Oct 26, 2017
#Windows10 – Disable the #SurfaceDial global menu in a UWP App

Hello! Today’s post is a fast one, for a specific scenario: In a Universal Windows Platform App, we must define whether to show or hide the menus when working with a Surface Dial. To do this, we must access the general configuration of Surface Dial using RadialControllerConfiguration. The following class shows an example of a… — read more

Oct 25, 2017
#Windows10 – Customizing the default menu items in #SurfaceDial

Hello! I continue with the series of posts on work with Surface Dial. In the previous post I described how to create a menu with 3 options that are activated in the Surface Dial. If our App needs several menus, one of the options that we may need to take into account is to disable… — read more

Oct 24, 2017
#Humor – Best #WindowsUpdate Meme ever …

Hi! Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno — read more

Oct 22, 2017
#PowerBI – Sending information to Streaming Datasets from a UWP App with C#

Hello! Today the post is a simple reminder of a piece of code I’ve written from scratch several times, and that’s it, I’m writing this down here! The scenario is simple: In a PowerBI Instance I have a pair of Streaming Datasets and I want to send information to them from a Windows Store App.… — read more

Oct 19, 2017